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live from hand to mouth

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live from hand to mouth
Fig. to live in poor circumstances. When both my parents were out of work, we lived from hand to mouth. We lived from hand to mouth during the war. Things were very difficult.
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Israel reopened its border crossings with Gaza to basic supplies on Wednesday but UN officials complained that the repeated closures of recent weeks were forcing the territory's population to live from hand to mouth.
Israel lets in Gaza food but not enough says UN by AFP / AFP Global Edition
5The ongoing financial problems of Welsh Schools' Athletics Association to be resolved, so that the association does not have to live from hand to mouth on a yearly basis.
WISH LIST FOR 2008 by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
The players he left behind will find out in the next couple of days if the cheques from those shysters that pass for a board at Accies are going to bounce - and, as they have done in recent times, the club will continue to live from hand to mouth.
Derek Watson Column: Cheque out dud Accies by The Mirror (London, England)
 
 
 
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